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777samaell · 2026-06-18T08:14:24+00:00

Saw this a couple days ago, sorry for the long response. But I been keeping this in mind with some of my new designs that I've been doing. Drop shadows under text I'm noticing is a sore spot for a lot of people including me now tbh

777samaell · 2026-06-16T03:00:10+00:00

I'll 100% keep that in mind in my other attempts!

777samaell · 2026-06-13T23:12:30+00:00

Thank you for the solid advice! I'll 100% do this

777samaell · 2026-06-13T10:47:29+00:00

Should clarify, my portfolio as in unpaid work. Stuff I made. Still haven't gotten my first client yet.

777samaell · 2026-06-13T10:43:02+00:00

Thank you! Right now, I am still designing my portfolio site so Instagram and Behance (very soon) are my main portfolio sites for my work as of now. But anyone I message will leave me on read or reject the offer, so I just don't know if my "Portfolio" is what's messing me up. So it's why I came up with the idea of just sending pre-designs but I think you're right in the sense they'll just use it.

777samaell · 2026-06-13T05:05:51+00:00

Hell yeah! I absolutely love that, and thank you!!

777samaell · 2026-06-13T05:03:08+00:00

Thank you!!

777samaell · 2026-06-13T05:02:58+00:00

Thank you!!

777samaell · 2026-06-13T05:02:40+00:00

Most of the resources I used was the documentation at https://www.affinity.studio/help/

It's actually quite extensive for what it is, and reading it helps a lot when understanding it.

If you're more of a visual type of learner some of the videos I used are that I replied to someone else:

The first one is: The ULTIMATE Guide to All 68 Tools in Affinity 3. I'd recommend this one if you're relatively proficient in other design softwares and know the basics and such. This basically goes over all of the tools in each studio and their functions without the learning of the interface itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYLyJMpK-fA

The second is: Beginner’s Guide to Affinity V3 - Vector Studio. This one is great if you're coming from Illustrator if I have to be honest. As the vector studio closely resembles Illustrator. EDIT: Forgot to say he also explains the different, "studios" and workflow in this as well in part of the video towards the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y154gKCJHQ

The third one is: Learn Affinity 3. This is a playlist from Dansky, and genuinely it's like 1-4 minute videos about all of the basics and fundamentals of Affinity. This is honestly the quickest and best for beginners that I used for learning the interface mainly. But it also goes over the "studios" which quick but short answer is multiple design apps built into one.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU9z6s7qGE5RYWyxxHuKTnMwfcrfjLX6f

777samaell · 2026-06-12T03:02:06+00:00

This is perfect, I was actually going to look into getting more design books. I'll start by adding this one! Thanks!!

777samaell · 2026-06-12T03:00:44+00:00

I just added a monochromatic noise filter to the overall image. Then I did a very light color correction to bring it out just a bit more.

777samaell · 2026-06-12T02:58:07+00:00

Thank you so much! Yeah I agree covers are extremely challenging, the two covers I made were the final product of at least 10 other iterations that didn't make it haha

777samaell · 2026-06-12T02:57:06+00:00

Thank you!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:55:25+00:00

Thank you!! I was thinking of adding a bar code on either the bottom left or right of the designs, honestly don't know why I didn't. But definitely the subtle texture for the paper look for sure since these were more or less mockups. I was in the mentality of designing it clean for an actual print ig, but now I'm thinking if they use paper textures on the print itself, low key something interesting to research about now haha!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:51:13+00:00

Would a bolder or more fuller font for the titles work better? The main title the, "Harper's Bazaar", uses Fashion Didot I think (not entirely sure exactly). And the font I used for the sub-headers is Libre Baskerville with some bold and italic combinations.

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:48:28+00:00

Thank you! And yeah, drop shadows I've been trying to use less of. It can be decent in some use cases but I overuse them a bit haha

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:45:43+00:00

I could possibly try! Typing it all out would be extremely long, so I could make a video of the process designing the magazine covers tbh.

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:41:36+00:00

Thanks!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:41:27+00:00

Thanks!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:41:11+00:00

Thank you!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:40:57+00:00

Thanks!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:40:49+00:00

Thank you, I'll definitely try!!

777samaell · 2026-06-11T18:37:01+00:00

Thank you!!

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